> No, I'm explaining my position, since I was > criticized earlier for not > doing that. I'm not at all opposed to multiple > distributions as long as > they're compatible with each other. ... > "OpenSolaris" has to mean something more than just "a > pile of code".
The biggest obstacle here, as I see it, is that Sun has created a situation where the name "OpenSolaris" is no longer solely theirs to use. It belongs to the community. If you get OGB approval for use of the name OpenSolaris, i.e. some kind of community consensus, then that's great. If you had started off with a binary distribution, even with some non-free binaries, called OpenSolaris then the community would have formed around the distribution. At the moment we have "a community + some source code + some closed binaries on a relaxed distribution licence" called OpenSolaris, and a binary distro (Nevada) owned by Sun, derived from OpenSolaris, downloadable from the OpenSolaris website, but not actually OpenSolaris itself. Our de facto reference platform is Sun's Solaris. We need the de facto reference platform to be community owned, otherwise this debate about Sun owning the (community + platform) will always be with us. OpenSolaris is the community. So logically the reference platform needs to be named OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris needs to be the platform, otherwise what is the name of the platform - ON? OS/Net? Polaris, MyUdix (TM)? what? Why would you want to invent a new name, when OpenSolaris is by far the most recognisable tag the (community + code + binaries) already has? My own preference for which distro I would like to see become the reference platform would be Belenix since, in my view, it shows most clearly the way the platform needs to evolve. By that I mean: 1. Live CD/DVD/USB key, 2. Improved interoperability with other OSes, 3. Nice eye candy (*never* underestimate the eye candy), 4. Compatibility with Sun's distro. 5. Fixing some of the brain-dead stuff in Sun's distro (default password hashing algorithm "broken as designed", no command completion, the ^H bug, ....). Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
